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Aurialie Jublin

Amazon Is Building An App To Let Normal People Deliver Packages For Pay - 0 views

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    Amazon is apparently enlisting everyday humans in its network of endless online shopping delivery. The WSJ reports that the ecommerce giant is working on an app internally that would allow the average consumer to make a little cash by picking up Amazon packages at various retail locations and dropping them off at their final destination.
Thierry Nabeth

Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment | Report - 0 views

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    Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment, is the latest Citi GPS report from the Oxford Martin School and Citi. It explores trends in automation and points to sluggish job creation caused partly by increasing automation, and argues that secular stagnation in the digital age can only be avoided by a shift towards inclusive growth. Technology at Work marks the start of a new programme of research supported by Citi, the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment.
Aurialie Jublin

In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In a climate of continuing high unemployment, however, people like Ms. Guidry are less microentrepreneurs than microearners. They often work seven-day weeks, trying to assemble a living wage from a series of one-off gigs. They have little recourse when the services for which they are on call change their business models or pay rates. To reduce the risks, many workers toggle among multiple services.
  • Certainly, it’s a good deal for consumers. Peer marketplaces democratize luxury services by making amateur chauffeurs, chefs and personal assistants available to perform occasional work once largely dominated by full-time professionals. Venture capital firms seem convinced.
  • In July, 9.7 million Americans were unemployed, and an additional 7.5 million were working part-time jobs because they could not find full-time work, according to estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.There are no definitive statistics on how many people work in the gig economy. But according to a report from MBO Partners, a company that provides consulting services to independent contractors, about 17.7 million Americans last year worked more than half time as independent contributors, among them project workers.
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  • Jamie Viggiano, senior director of marketing at TaskRabbit, says the company is trying to improve the situation for its 30,000 contractors in 19 cities in the United States. It recently instituted a sitewide minimum wage of $15 an hour. It also adopted a $1 million insurance policy, covering both clients and contractors, for any property damage or bodily harm that occurs while performing a job. Still, Ms. Viggiano says that “across the industry, we have only scratched the surface of helping freelancers work in the gig economy.”
  • Technology has made online marketplaces possible, creating new opportunities to monetize labor and goods. But some economists say the short-term gig services may erode work compensation in the long term. Mr. Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, argues that online labor marketplaces are able to drive down costs for consumers by having it both ways: behaving as de facto employers without shouldering the actual cost burdens or liabilities of employing workers.
  • Labor activists say gig enterprises may also end up disempowering workers, degrading their access to fair employment conditions.“These are not jobs, jobs that have any future, jobs that have the possibility of upgrading; this is contingent, arbitrary work,” says Stanley Aronowitz, director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “It might as well be called wage slavery in which all the cards are held, mediated by technology, by the employer, whether it is the intermediary company or the customer.”
  • TaskRabbit has started offering its contractors access to discounted health insurance and accounting services. Lyft has formed a partnership with Freelancers Union, making its drivers eligible for the advocacy group’s health plan and other benefit programs.That may not be enough. Dr. Standing, the labor economist, says workers need formal protections to address the power asymmetries inherent in contingent work. International rules, he says, could endow gig workers with basic entitlements — like the right to organize and the right to due process should companies seek to remove them from their platforms.
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    Le business de la "sharing economy", c'est encore beaucoup la précarité des "employés".
Aurialie Jublin

The Future Knowledge Worker - 0 views

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    In this guest blog, Jacob Morgan, author, speaker and futurist, shares his vision for how the Internet of Everything will shape the day-to-day lives of future knowledge workers. As evidenced by the results of Cisco's 2014 Connected World Technology Report, the future of work will be more collaborative than ever before. As a result, the typical day of tomorrow's knowledge worker will be dramatically different than it is today.
Aurialie Jublin

Automation may require as many as 375 million people to find new jobs by 2030 - Quartz - 0 views

  • y 2030, up to 30% of the hours worked globally could be automated, according to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Analysts in the consultancy’s research arm estimate that between 400 million and 800 million people could find themselves displaced by automation and in need of new jobs, depending on how quickly new technologies are adopted. Of this group, as many as 375 million people—about 14% of the global workforce—may need to completely switch occupational categories and learn a new set of skills to find work.
  • Notably, McKinsey argues that demand for work will increase as automation grows. Technology will drive productivity growth, which will in turn lead to rising incomes and consumption, especially in developing countries. Meanwhile, there will be more jobs in health care to meet the demands of aging societies and more investment in infrastructure and energy.
  • For these benefits to be realised, everyone needs to gain new skills, with governments and private companies taking on the unprecedented task of retraining millions of people in the middle of their careers. “Even if there is enough work to ensure full employment by 2030, major transitions lie ahead that could match or even exceed the scale of historical shifts out of agriculture and manufacturing,” the report says.
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  • There will be other challenges too. In advanced economies, there is a risk that automation will worsen the trend of income polarization, with demand for high-wage jobs increasing, and demand for medium-wage jobs falling. Also, displaced workers will need to find jobs quickly—preferably within a year—otherwise frictional unemployment (lots of people moving between jobs) could put downward pressure on wages.
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    "Fears that automation and machine learning will cause massive job losses and make people obsolete are starting to wane (well, unless you ask Stephen Hawking). Instead, there's a more optimistic prediction taking hold: that the new technology could actually lead to job gains. But the transition won't be easy."
Aurialie Jublin

Bonus.ly looks to motivate workers with peer-to-peer bonuses - latimes.com - 1 views

  • As the workforce continues to transform into a knowledge economy based on intellectual capital and productivity, employees are encouraged to collaborate and communicate more, "but it’s often neutral (transactional) or negative (as in, ‘where is the report?’),” said Crawford-Marks. He said Bonus.ly helps incentivize positive communication, such as meaningful praise and recognition, through timely peer bonuses and awards focused along company-defined core values. 
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    Résumé de Planète plus du Monde :  Une start-up américaine propose un système pour changer la manière dont sont allouées les primes dans les entreprises. Basé sur le pair-à-pair, Bonus.ly est une plateforme sur laquelle les salariés s'entre-évaluent. A partir d'un montant global de primes, chacun donne des points aux collègues qu'il considère méritant, le comptage final permet le partage entre les salariés. L'idée, pour Raphaël Crawford-Marks, cofondateur de l'entreprise, est de changer la manière dont les salariés collaborent : alors que la communication "est toujours neutre (transactionnelle), ou négative ('mais où est le rapport ?')," ce système doit permettre d'aller vers une communication plus "positive". 
Aurialie Jublin

Need Help With Work? Startup RelateIQ Aims to Improve Work Relationships - WSJ.com - 1 views

  • Data scientists are beginning to peer into work relationships, trying to identify patterns that can improve how employees collaborate with peers, manage sales relationships, or see how they stack up against colleagues. It is a nascent market, but up-and-coming startups have their eyes set on upending established business-technology companies like Salesforce, which are also increasingly digging into data.
  • Elsewhere, Boston-based Sociometric Solutions Inc. uses physical sensors to collect data on employees' movements and the tone of their conversations to tell managers where interactions are dipping and where employees are congregating. In San Francisco, tenXer Inc., a program for computer engineers, tracks code modifications and hours spent in meetings to help them see how their productivity stacks up against colleagues. And Boston-based Yesware Inc. helps employees track emails, monitors how many times their emails are opened, what devices recipients are using, and provides analytic reports on the email traffic of colleagues.
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    Startups Like RelateIQ Are Aiming to Help Improve Employees' Work Life With Software Résumé IA : RelatelQ - https://www.relateiq.com - est un logiciel qui se propose de regarder votre vie numérique pour vous en faire ressortir ce qui semble important. L'algorithme de RelateIQ recueille constamment des signaux de données pour déterminer si les relations de travail avec des partenaires internes ou externes se refroidissent et si l'utilisateur doit prendre des mesures. Sociometric Solutions utilise une méthode proche pour améliorer les conversations. tenXer - https://www.tenxer.com - gère les modifications de code et les heures passées en réunion pour aider à mieux maîtriser sa productivité. Yesware - http://www.yesware.com - tente d'améliorer la productivité par e-mail. Chez RelateIQ, les programmeurs tentent de toujours mieux cerner les tendances, comme le temps moyen qu'il faut pour qu'une personne puisse répondre et quels types de ponctuation et de phrases provoquent généralement des réponses. Ils tentent également de détecter le sarcasme et les mots qui sont habituellement associées à des questions importantes. Ces données peuvent révéler, par exemple, si une relation stagne ou progresse. Reste que dans des environnements de communication très complexe, le défi de ces outils est également complexe. L'apprentissage machine peut provoquer des erreurs, des mauvaises interprétations, des recommandations qui semblent venir de nulle part. Promesse ou illusion ?
Aurialie Jublin

QVT et collectifs « heureux » : le rôle du manager - Metis - 0 views

  • la déconnexion des dirigeants au terrain, une problématique déjà évoquée par Michel Crozier et approfondie aujourd'hui par l'un de ses continuateurs, François Dupuy, auteur notamment de La fatigue des élites, Lost in management et La faillite de la pensée managériale. On retrouve justement la problématique de la quantophrénie et du chiffre. En effet, plus les dirigeants s'éloignent des processus de travail et ont du mal à les cerner et plus ils demandent du reporting, des données. Il y a alors une grande partie de l'énergie des opérateurs qui est dérivée, déviée vers la production de chiffres.
  • on est en France dans ce contexte particulier d'un taylorisme dont on a des difficultés à sortir. En même temps, ces vingt dernières années il y a eu un effort extrêmement important sur l'éducation : le niveau moyen s'est considérablement élevé et de plus en plus de jeunes sortent de l'université. Ainsi, des personnes de mieux en mieux formées se trouvent confrontées à des marges de manœuvre de plus en plus réduites. D'où cet intérêt vis-à-vis de l'entreprise libérée qui existe aussi en Belgique, mais nulle part à ce point ailleurs en Europe. D'où aussi le nombre important de jeunes qui veulent créer leur startup, préférant la liberté et le dynamisme à la contrainte. Cet esprit entrepreneurial est l'aspect positif, mais il y a un gros revers, c'est le désengagement d'autres personnes dans l'entreprise et ce que l'on appelle « la grève du zèle ». Quand tout le monde suit les consignes à la lettre, cela bloque le travail et les organisations. Cela prouve que l'hyper-prescription du travail n'est pas un gage de performance, ni sur le plan économique ni sur le plan humain.
  • En France, on a souvent une vue assez critique sur le management, on a même tendance à le diaboliser. Mais, pour moi, il ne faut pas aller dans le sens de ce que voudrait nous faire croire l'entreprise libérée qui développe son « modèle idéal » : dialogue direct entre le chef d'entreprise - le libérateur - et ses collaborateurs. J'estime au contraire que ce modèle est détestable dès que l'entreprise atteint une certaine taille et doit composer avec la complexité. L'étude de Technologia que j'ai mentionnée montre à quel point la fréquence et la qualité de la relation avec le manager de proximité sont déterminantes pour construire la QVT. Lorsqu'il y a un désaccord ou un conflit, on doit trouver les moyens de les résoudre. S'il n'y a plus personne pour le faire les tensions montent et les risques psychosociaux (RPS) avec. Même si les machines et algorithmes peuvent apporter un certain nombre d'informations, la dimension humaine est irremplaçable.
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    "La QVT qu'est ce que c'est ? Qu'est-ce qui pousse les dirigeants à s'en emparer ? Et pourquoi ne pas aller vers l'entreprise libérée ? Les collectifs sont-ils morts ? Dans un entretien croisé, une conversation entre Yves Grasset, sociologue du travail et auteur de Nourrir le collectif - sortir de l'individualisation pour sauver le travail et Martin Richer spécialiste de la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises et co-auteur du rapport Qualité de vie au travail : un levier de compétitivité, ces questions vont trouver réponse... et le manager sa juste place."
Aurialie Jublin

BYOD : pourquoi apportons-nous notre propre équipement ? - 1 views

  • Une étude iPass sur 1 100 salariés mobiles conclue notre propos: « Les employés qui utilisent un équipement mobile à la fois pour le travail et la vie personnelle travaillent 240 heures de plus que les autres. »
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    Strategy Analytics a récemment révélé que les employés achètent quatre tablettes sur dix à leurs propres frais... pour les utiliser au travail. Cette statistique vient confirmer le phénomène de consumérisation rapide de l'informatique d'entreprise. Elle suggère également que la tendance Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) repose sur des motivations très fortes. Mots clés : autonomie personnelle sur le lieu de travail ; amélioration de la satisfaction au travail ; réduction des coûts pour les entreprises
Thierry Nabeth

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The "Slacker" Millennial Guy -- HBR blog - 0 views

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    An important new study by Youngjoo Cha and Kim A. Weeden reports that the wage premium for "overwork"-working more than 50 hours a week-has risen sharply. In 1979, there was actually a wage penalty for overwork; but this turned into a wage premium after the mid-1990s. Because men tend to overwork more than women, the rising overwork premium raised men's wages more than women's, and has effectively erased the advantage women gained by increasing their higher education levels.
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    This mindset, created by the peculiar demography of upper-level management, is increasingly out of sync with most of the workforce. Younger men increasingly want schedules that work around family needs - just as women have been demanding for years.
Aurialie Jublin

How Zappos determines salaries in Holacracy - Business Insider - 0 views

  • There are also badges that are not tied to roles that result in a raise, such as the Teal 101 badge, which employees can earn after reading management guru Frederic Laloux's book, "Reinventing Organizations," and writing one to three paragraphs demonstrating their understanding, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
  • Badges also exist for non-monetary roles like proficiency in talking about Teal companies (what Zappos aspires to be) and teaching yoga. Jewett says these reinforce Hsieh's Core Value No. 3 to "create fun and a little weirdness," and self-expression has always been at the heart of Zappos.
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    ""At this time, compensation is tied to roles, and the badges encompass the work or skills being done in those roles," says Lisa Jewett, who has the role of "@Badge_Librarian" and is leading how compensation works in the Zappos Holacracy. "However, we are currently in the process of building a more robust badging system that will allow people to build their salary based on the avenues they would like to pursue." Essentially, that means that the pursuit of badges may eventually resemble a "leveling up" process from video games, where the acquiring of a new badge automatically equals a bigger paycheck. As of now, employees looking for a raise submit an application to Zappos' Compensation Circle, a group of employees responsible for approving salaries. "
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